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We almost went with contentful when we chose a headless cms. But their pricing for large multilingual sites was through the roof. Directus is an open source al

We almost went with contentful when we chose a headless cms. But their pricing for large multilingual sites was through the roof. Directus is an open source alternative that has the same features for free. So we wet with this. Very happy with this CMS.

Cyberdog 9y ago
I'm looking at the awful web site[0] for Directus, and it sure has a lot of screenshots of what appears to be a fairly traditional web-based CMS UI. I get that what we're seeing may just be a front-end "app" connecting to the core headless CMS via its own API, but at what point has your "headless CMS with a nice UI" just become another traditional CMS? [0]: https://getdirectus.com https://getdirectus.com
- detaro 9y ago
  All I see on their homepage is backend UI. A headless CMS has no client/visitor facing UI.
- lsaferite 9y ago
  Headless CMS in this context means it's just the CMS backend (the tail) and not a frontend (the head). The raw content is rendered to a FE view by something else.
  - thisacctforreal 9y ago
    Back-end and front-end often mean server-side and client(browserside respectively, eg Front-end developer. So to be clear, headless CMSs have an admin-facing front-end and back-end to manage content, but only an API for a process to render the content into HTML/CSS/JS for visitors. That said, headless CMSs can be used for more than just websites.
    - lsaferite 9y ago
      Hence the "in this context" part
gregwebs 9y ago
yeah, pricing did not make sense for us. We went with Kentico Cloud (hosted, but it is also open source that you can deploy).
- Sujan 9y ago
  > but it is also open source that you can deploy Do you have a link for that? I couldn't find anything about self hosting. (But I did check it out, and it definitely is quite capable!)
  - Sujan 9y ago
    I asked Kentico Cloud support, this was their reply. > Kentico Cloud is a SaaS model, so you need to host the application that consumes data from it. I'm not aware of an option where you would host the content management application. So no self hosted option.
- sedojj 9y ago
  Kentico Cloud hosts the content inventory/management part, the frontend is hosted on your end. Not aware of any possibilty to host content management part yourself.
Sujan 9y ago
Played with Directus a bit today. The "Create content model" UI is definitely not as polished as the one from Contentful or Kentico Cloud - but it works. You have to actually manage relationship tables yourself, which some people might like. Unfortunately their only trial is for the smaller plan which is limited to 3 tables, and I don't have the energy and motivation to install the Open Source version... Still interesting.

Cyberdog 9y ago

I'm looking at the awful web site[0] for Directus, and it sure has a lot of screenshots of what appears to be a fairly traditional web-based CMS UI. I get that what we're seeing may just be a front-end "app" connecting to the core headless CMS via its own API, but at what point has your "headless CMS with a nice UI" just become another traditional CMS? [0]: https://getdirectus.com https://getdirectus.com

detaro 9y ago
All I see on their homepage is backend UI. A headless CMS has no client/visitor facing UI.
lsaferite 9y ago
Headless CMS in this context means it's just the CMS backend (the tail) and not a frontend (the head). The raw content is rendered to a FE view by something else.
- thisacctforreal 9y ago
  Back-end and front-end often mean server-side and client(browserside respectively, eg Front-end developer. So to be clear, headless CMSs have an admin-facing front-end and back-end to manage content, but only an API for a process to render the content into HTML/CSS/JS for visitors. That said, headless CMSs can be used for more than just websites.
  - lsaferite 9y ago
    Hence the "in this context" part

gregwebs 9y ago

yeah, pricing did not make sense for us. We went with Kentico Cloud (hosted, but it is also open source that you can deploy).

Sujan 9y ago
> but it is also open source that you can deploy Do you have a link for that? I couldn't find anything about self hosting. (But I did check it out, and it definitely is quite capable!)
- Sujan 9y ago
  I asked Kentico Cloud support, this was their reply. > Kentico Cloud is a SaaS model, so you need to host the application that consumes data from it. I'm not aware of an option where you would host the content management application. So no self hosted option.
sedojj 9y ago
Kentico Cloud hosts the content inventory/management part, the frontend is hosted on your end. Not aware of any possibilty to host content management part yourself.

Sujan 9y ago

Played with Directus a bit today. The "Create content model" UI is definitely not as polished as the one from Contentful or Kentico Cloud - but it works. You have to actually manage relationship tables yourself, which some people might like. Unfortunately their only trial is for the smaller plan which is limited to 3 tables, and I don't have the energy and motivation to install the Open Source version... Still interesting.